Category: Top 2016: A Review of Cyber Attacks on India in 2016

Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site or a webpage. Defacement is generally used to spread messages by politically motivated “cyber protesters” or hacktivists. Web defacement is often considered a minor form of Cyber Attack, very much like a petty crime. Web defacement is relatively easier to…

Targeted cyber attacks are those which are performed over a period of time with a clear intention of damaging an organization’s reputation by stealing data from their network and servers. Targeted attacks are the worst case scenario any organization can imagine as not only it might lose reputation but also may cost millions of loss…

A very crucial and highly targeted sector by hackers is banking. Banks are the place where a country’s money lies. Almost all the banks going digital now a days, opened up a new threat to cyber world’s safety. If an attacker can get his hands on any banks e payment system he might receive good…

The end of the year is already upon us. It is that time of the year, when we look back at last 12 months and remember all the events happened in our lives. So, let’s take a look back on how cyber-attacks compromised our secure cyber walls and exploited our networks. Almost all of us…

Data Theft or Data Breach, as quoted by TechTarget is an incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data has potentially been viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Going Digital, a lot of Data from India, either from private sector or Government is digitized, stored online and protection from data…